Optimal nonanticipating controls are shown to exist in nonautonomous piecewise deterministic control problems with hard terminal restrictions. The assumptions needed are completely analogous to those needed to obtain optimal controls in deterministic control problems. The proof is based on well-known results on existence of deterministic optimal controls.
A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of pole and zero structures in a proper rational matrix equation is developed. This condition provides a new interpretation of sufficient conditions which ensure decentralized stabilizability of an expanded system. A numerical example illustrate the theoretical results.
The paper is motivated by the study of interesting models from economics and the natural sciences where the underlying randomness contains jumps. Stochastic differential equations with Poisson jumps have become very popular in modeling the phenomena arising in the field of financial mathematics, where the jump processes are widely used to describe the asset and commodity price dynamics. This paper addresses the issue of approximate controllability of impulsive fractional stochastic differential...
In this paper, we study ϕ-Laplacian problems for differential inclusions with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove the existence of solutions under both convexity and nonconvexity conditions on the multi-valued right-hand side. The nonlinearity satisfies either a Nagumo-type growth condition or an integrably boundedness one. The proofs rely on the Bonhnenblust-Karlin fixed point theorem and the Bressan-Colombo selection theorem respectively. Two applications to a problem from control theory are...
We analyze the optimal sales process of a stochastic advertising and pricing model with constant demand elasticities. We derive explicit formulae of the densities of the (optimal) sales times and (optimal) prices when a fixed finite number of units of a product are to be sold during a finite sales period or an infinite one. Furthermore, for any time t the exact distribution of the inventory, i.e. the number of unsold items, at t is determined and will be expressed in terms of elementary functions....
We consider an evolution equation similar to that introduced by Vese in [Comm. Partial Diff. Eq. 24 (1999) 1573–1591] and whose solution converges in large time to the convex envelope of the initial datum. We give a stochastic control representation for the solution from which we deduce, under quite general assumptions that the convergence in the Lipschitz norm is in fact exponential in time.
We consider an evolution equation similar to that introduced by Vese in [Comm. Partial Diff. Eq. 24 (1999) 1573–1591] and whose solution converges in large time to the convex envelope of the initial datum. We give a stochastic control representation for the solution from which we deduce, under quite general assumptions that the convergence in the Lipschitz norm is in fact exponential in time.
We consider an evolution equation similar to that introduced by Vese in [Comm. Partial Diff. Eq. 24 (1999) 1573–1591] and whose solution converges in large time to the convex envelope of the initial datum. We give a stochastic control representation for the solution from which we deduce, under quite general assumptions that the convergence in the Lipschitz norm is in fact exponential in time.
This paper is concerned with the exponential filter design problem for stochastic Markovian jump systems with time-varying delays, where the time-varying delays include not only discrete delays but also distributed delays. First of all, by choosing a modified Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and employing the property of conditional mathematical expectation, a novel delay-dependent approach is developed to deal with the mean-square exponential stability problem and control problem. Then, a mean-square...
In this paper we study the frequency and time domain behaviour of a heat exchanger network system. The system is governed by hyperbolic partial differential equations. Both the control operator and the observation operator are unbounded but admissible. Using the theory of symmetric hyperbolic systems, we prove exponential stability of the underlying semigroup for the heat exchanger network. Applying the recent theory of well-posed infinite-dimensional linear systems, we prove that the system is...